Sontag Surname
Approximately 5,550 people bear this surname
Sontag Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 2,925 | 1:123,918 | 13,187 |
| Germany | 709 | 1:113,548 | 13,978 |
| Brazil | 546 | 1:392,078 | 14,963 |
| France | 486 | 1:136,672 | 20,929 |
| Canada | 251 | 1:146,795 | 15,033 |
| Poland | 138 | 1:275,426 | 33,676 |
| England | 112 | 1:497,483 | 31,781 |
| Finland | 70 | 1:78,524 | 8,534 |
| Netherlands | 51 | 1:331,121 | 38,060 |
| Austria | 46 | 1:185,118 | 23,639 |
| Argentina | 32 | 1:1,335,732 | 76,713 |
| Luxembourg | 30 | 1:19,351 | 4,315 |
| Croatia | 29 | 1:145,814 | 20,021 |
| Sweden | 25 | 1:393,870 | 27,867 |
| Australia | 24 | 1:1,124,821 | 62,883 |
| Chile | 13 | 1:1,355,113 | 23,887 |
| Slovakia | 9 | 1:592,939 | 64,129 |
| Czechia | 6 | 1:1,772,245 | 105,647 |
| Thailand | 6 | 1:11,773,058 | 553,295 |
| Bermuda | 5 | 1:13,056 | 1,849 |
| Israel | 4 | 1:2,139,408 | 95,907 |
| Switzerland | 4 | 1:2,053,229 | 97,179 |
| French Polynesia | 4 | 1:70,201 | 4,444 |
| Romania | 3 | 1:6,692,623 | 78,504 |
| Belgium | 2 | 1:5,748,322 | 130,559 |
| American Samoa | 1 | 1:55,758 | 3,072 |
| Uruguay | 1 | 1:3,431,758 | 38,295 |
| Vietnam | 1 | 1:92,646,054 | 8,382 |
| Spain | 1 | 1:46,752,036 | 156,870 |
| South Africa | 1 | 1:54,177,704 | 343,732 |
| Russia | 1 | 1:144,123,056 | 881,408 |
| Qatar | 1 | 1:2,357,999 | 76,403 |
| Bangladesh | 1 | 1:159,356,773 | 26,077 |
| Paraguay | 1 | 1:7,236,746 | 16,511 |
| Norway | 1 | 1:5,142,286 | 129,201 |
| New Caledonia | 1 | 1:276,223 | 10,363 |
| Mexico | 1 | 1:124,126,205 | 103,776 |
| Lithuania | 1 | 1:3,034,588 | 47,401 |
| Lebanon | 1 | 1:5,637,083 | 32,436 |
| Italy | 1 | 1:61,156,688 | 199,583 |
| Indonesia | 1 | 1:132,249,194 | 811,426 |
| Guam | 1 | 1:160,121 | 4,893 |
| Bosnia and Herzegovina | 1 | 1:3,536,402 | 19,532 |
| Fiji | 1 | 1:894,391 | 4,568 |
| Estonia | 1 | 1:1,321,804 | 40,178 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| England | 2 | 1:12,187,685 | 173,419 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 428 | 1:117,333 | 11,513 |
The alternate forms: Sontág (55) are calculated separately.
Sontag (24) may also be a first name.
Sontag Demographics
Average Male Sontag Height
175.23 cm
Sample is predominantly from Anglosphere countries
Sontag Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Sontag Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Sontag is more frequently found in The United States than any other country or territory. It can also be rendered as: Sontág. For other potential spellings of this last name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Sontag? popularity and diffusion
It is the 86,765th most commonly occurring family name on a worldwide basis, held by around 1 in 1,313,071 people. The surname Sontag is mostly found in The Americas, where 68 percent of Sontag live; 57 percent live in North America and 57 percent live in Anglo-North America. Sontag is also the 2,187,323rd most frequent first name world-wide. It is borne by 24 people.
The surname is most frequently held in The United States, where it is carried by 2,925 people, or 1 in 123,918. In The United States Sontag is most common in: New York, where 9 percent are found, California, where 9 percent are found and Missouri, where 8 percent are found. Besides The United States it occurs in 44 countries. It is also found in Germany, where 13 percent are found and Brazil, where 10 percent are found.
Sontag Family Population Trend historical fluctuation
The occurrence of Sontag has changed through the years. In The United States the number of people who held the Sontag surname expanded 683 percent between 1880 and 2014 and in England it expanded 5,600 percent between 1881 and 2014.
Sontag Last Name Statistics demography
In The United States those holding the Sontag surname are 11.13% more likely to be registered with the Republican Party than the national average, with 57.9% being registered with the party.
The amount Sontag earn in different countries varies somewhat. In United States they earn 15.81% more than the national average, earning $49,972 USD per year and in Canada they earn 2.64% more than the national average, earning $50,995 CAD per year.
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Footnotes
- Surnames are taken as the first part of an person's inherited family name, caste, clan name or in some cases patronymic
- Name distribution statistics are generated from a global database of over 4 billion people - more information
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- Rank: Name are ranked by incidence using the ordinal ranking method; the name that occurs the most is assigned a rank of 1; name that occur less frequently receive an incremented rank; if two or more name occur the same number of times they are assigned the same rank and successive rank is incremented by the total preceeding names
- Ethnic group cannot necessarily be determined by geographic occurrence
- Similar: Names listed in the "Similar" section are phonetically similar and may not have any relation to Sontag
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